Invading armies and the powerful families of Europe were not alone in shaping the nation’s heritage, says Prof Joanna Story There has never been an isolated, insular “Little England”, with migrants ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

In the 19th century, archaeologists in England unearthed remains that dated to the era after Roman rule, which ended around 400 C.E. The items revealed a shift from Roman artifacts to those ...

Medieval markets were the center of daily life, bringing together merchants, farmers, craftsmen, and customers from across the region. Shoppers could find food, tools, clothing, and imported goods, ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The long-held assumption about Medieval rulers has been that they ate copious amounts of meat, but new ...

An innovative new archaeological study has revealed in detail for the first time how individual towns, villages and hamlets across swathes of medieval England were decimated by the Black Death. An ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The historical record is a little vague but there’s every chance that, more than 500 years ago, knights with ...